Octavio Paz Quotes

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you'll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too.

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

I don't know where I'm really going to cha cha, but hopefully I can find a place.

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

My life is like a speeding bullet that just hasn't hit the target yet.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

Success is something good, and something bad. I don't know if it's good to always go after success.

Focus on a specific intention... A goal is often fueled by fear... An intention is fueled by a sense of purpose.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.